Here's my report.

Day 1 after debating which spot I should fish I decided to launch out of the casino instead of Redbud. I got in the water and didn't want to travel too far cause I wanted to fish the casino bay. I watched several boats come into the bay so I hugged the shore and chucked an uncle manny minnow for nothing. The sun was starting to come up and the boats were getting ready to blast off. I listened to the national anthem with the rest of the won bass guys, watched them blast off and went into the casino bay to start fishing.

There was bait everywhere in there. I threw chatterbait, LV, more nanny Minnow, and flipped for not a bite. I decided to leave the bay and head out down to the right towards lands end. I picked up a senko fish 3-13lb just outside the bay to get started. Continued down the tullies til I got into lands end. The water started to get shallow as I got into the slough so I turned around and headed out after picking up a few short fish.

I headed straight towards the opposite side of the bay to some more tullies. I came across a one hundred yard stretch where I git into the fish. Pulled up to a tullies that stuck out pretty far and flipped a senko fish for 4-4lb, five yards latter another senko fish for 5-9lb. After landing and putting into the well I drifted back to where I started. Instead of rowing back up to next spot I started flipping a braver with 1.25oz tungsten and punching skirt deep in the tullies. I hook up and fish got off and then did it again in this same 10-15 yard stretch that I just got the 4 and 5 from. Now I'm excited, I know there here and I can get my limit fish. I started flipping senko first to edge of tullies and then beaver way back in them. Picked up limit fish 2-9lb and then culled it out an hour later with another 5-11lb.

I left and went back towers launch throwing chatterbait and lv for a couple of missed bites. Called it a day.

Day 2 I launched out of the same spot hoping to get 13-14lbs. I decided to head towards lands end right off the back to fish the bay itself in the morning. I was fishing along as I heard some fish going crazy up towards the shore. I moved in to check it out. Heard the national anthem start up so took my hat off and listened. Got to the shore line where all the fish were and picked up a 3-12. As I put the fish in the well here comes 2 boats cruising in to the bay where I just left and wanted to go back to. Well I blew it there. One of those boats camped out there all day. Damn! More boats came threw so I started to head to my stretch of tullies a lot earlier than planned. As I'm moving over a boat pulls a hundred yards in front of me and puts his trolling motor down right at my stretch of tullies. So I moved in behind him since he was throwing a swimbait and I wanted to flip. I picked up 2 fish within 10 minutes and watched the camped out boat and his co angler pick up at least one limit. Man already more boat traffic then all of day 1. I let those tullies rest for an hour and came back to pick up # 4. When I came back I had 5 fish or so roll moving quite a bit of water on either my senko or beaver. Every time I would get excited knowing each and every one of those would cull out my 2-9. It never happened tho. There was not quite as much wind as day 1 so I think as the fish turned to my bait they would see me and take off instead of hitting my bait. Ended up only catching 4 keepers for 12.38 and a total of 31.59 for the weekend. Just short of the win.

Congradulations Rich.

Taylor.